170. Black cross
Jiang Ke was a little uneasy, Xi's words were like a big stick smashed into his heart, and the evil aura was ...... I don't feel like there's anything wrong with my whole body?
"So, I seem to have done you a great favor." I don't know if it's an illusion, Xi Yin's eyes lit up a little in an instant, and her focused gaze seemed to penetrate Jiang Ke, she stood up from her chair, "Please stay calm." ”
As soon as the words were finished, the silver light lit up.
Jiang Ke instinctively wanted to retreat, but after feeling that there was no danger, he controlled his body again. Xi's silver hair fluttered without wind, and a force field dispersed, and the silver light illuminated the consultation room, and the energy that was cold to the bone approached, and Xi leaned over and stretched out his right hand covered with silver in a graceful manner.
This is a light and indescribable energy, the silver elf bloomed in the dark, the breath released was cold and hostile, and the slender hand seemed to hold a ball of light, sticking to Jiang Ke's forehead.
The mood is a little nervous, and there is only a cool touch on the contact surface, and nothing abnormal happens.
"I said ......"
As soon as Jiang Ke wanted to say something, his face changed suddenly.
At the same moment, the door of the consultation room was opened, and Bai Yujing, with an anxious and angry expression, rushed in.
The next moment, everyone's movements stopped for a moment.
The camera suddenly stuttered from color to gray, and then shuddered back again.
Something inside the body quivered, and then converged on the forehead.
A faint black cross was imprinted on the originally smooth forehead, and the pure dark texture descended here with a hint of familiarity.
The silver water on his forehead quickly retreated like fire.
"This is ......" Bai Yujing lowered her hand, Xi didn't seem to make a dangerous move, but was doing something other meaningful, she saw the black cross, her eyes were shocked.
Although Jiang Ke couldn't see it, her perception was also superhuman, and she knew that it was not good, the dark aura was not exactly the same, but it was similar to the death qi and evil of the ghoul method revealed by Wu Changdao, just like the fireflies in the night.
The picture appeared uncontrollably again, surging out in a slightly chaotic manner, the sound and color were like the sound and stinging of a storm passing through, the rising tentacles, the open flesh, the gray face of the dead Wu Changdao, trapped in the tentacle veins and muttering, suddenly, a black-haired girl stuffed the red talisman into the blood wall that was constantly wriggling like a living thing, and at the same moment, a small black streamer quickly crawled into the girl's tattered skirt from the connection between Wu Changdao and the blood vessels.
At that time?
Consciousness pulled back, Jiang Ke's face turned pale, a little overwhelmed, she remembered that Xu Bin came to the coffee shop to chat afterwards, and said that the stolen things that the priests were looking for had not been found at all...... Did she possess the tentacle monster when she entered it?
Don't you unfold it so disgustingly!
"Ominous mark." Xi said solemnly, the pale black cross obviously did not come to the surface of the skin voluntarily, it quickly tugged, as if twisting to make the surrounding cells resonate together, and struggled to dive.
Soon everything was as if nothing had happened, and after Shio looked at it and made sure that there was nothing he could do, he slowly withdrew the silver light around him.
"Deriver, there is such a thing on you, and you don't even know about it?" Shio's expression remained flat and he sat back in his chair.
Jiang Ke took a deep breath to ease her mood, she nodded to Bai Yujing who came in, and then looked at Xi, at this time her tone was not as casual as before.
"I really just found out. I'm ......dizzy," Jiang Ke was halfway through speaking, his mood became entangled, and he was extremely depressed, "It's so good to die, why did you run away from me." ”
"I don't know what happened to you before, but maybe you were charismatic and attracted to it." Shiomian said expressionlessly.
The atmosphere stiffened for a second.
"If you're joking to relieve tension, your joke is just too cold." Jiang Ke didn't have a funny expression at all, and then leaned back in the chair very helplessly, Bai Yujing had already walked over and put her hand on her shoulder comfortingly.
"Oh, that's it." Xi briefly summarizes his unsuccessful humor, and his flat tone and expression are a little cute from a certain angle.
Depressed for a while, Jiang Ke also knew that it was useless to complain about luck and the like now, and after a while, she faced Xi and had a more cordial attitude, "This guest, no, it's Miss Xi,
Can you elaborate on the fact that you know I have this thing on me? ”
Xi stared at her for a while with an inexplicable look that made Jiang Ke's face blush, and then said, "I don't know very well, it's just that I faintly had an empirical judgment when we first met, and in the palace where the Pusher went out to play a few days ago, there was a moment when a relatively clear evil aura was exposed, and I was a little sure of my thoughts." ”
"The origin of that mark is not simple." The words are concise and to the point.
"If you say that, I confirmed it when I was in the Forbidden City, did I do anything at that time?" Jiang Ke recalled, "At that time, I was watching blue and white porcelain and suddenly saw the picture of the past, and then my prediction ability was a little unstable...... Is there a relationship between the two? ”
"It is recommended that you deal with this matter as soon as possible." Xi is an outsider after all, and the current transaction with Jiang Ke has actually ended before, she pushed the necklace on the table, "This is the reward I paid for this consultation, since it is something related to evil, items that can stabilize the mind should be useful." ”
"Ahh Jiang Ke pressed his hand on the necklace, the exquisite workmanship and the reassuring gentleness were indeed valuable, at least this kind of superpower item could not be found on the earth where the development of cultivation was slow and preliminary, "Then thank you." ”
After all, Xi was going to ask in the past, but in the end he asked a strange question about whether he grew taller, even if the two parties were willing, he was quite embarrassed.
But one yard to one yard, this kind of good thing, you must accept it, especially when you know that you have been marked by a cross.
"It's also a coincidence that I'm here, and I'm going to leave ...... soon"
Xi's performance after that is ready to clap his hands and leave, to be honest, after knowing the hidden dangers on his body, Jiang Ke hopes that someone who knows how to stay is more, and the more troublesome thing is that now the most trusted Qingyun Daoyou is not around.
"Haha, is Miss Xi ready to go back? Why don't you stay for a meal? ”
Xi tilted her head suspiciously, as if she didn't expect the girl in front of her who had rejected her to eat with her would become enthusiastic.
"Don't bother, the school trip is coming to an end, and I have to go back to the hub."
"Hmm...... School trip? ”
Xi weighed the vocabulary, "That's probably how to translate it in this way." Truth be told, I haven't finished my schoolwork yet. ”
“……”
Are you sure you're not from the island country in the light novel, and aren't all the high school students there able to save the world?
I don't know what Xi's school is like, but as far as the school trip is concerned, an ordinary high school is at most a spring and autumn outing to see the scenery, and the other party turned out to be in another plane, Jiang Ke silently felt the high level of the force, the gap between the two is so big, I also want to go to a school like a coach! After a short conversation, he got up and sent Shio out of the coffee shop.
The other party waved his hand, his flat expression seemed to be non-existent for everything here, and turned around to blend into the night of the pedestrian street.
"I didn't expect to be able to meet a beautiful girl with three noes in reality." Jiang Ke watched the tide disappear, and the sudden meeting left in the blink of an eye, maybe there would be no chance to see it in the future. What the other party did to Jiang Ke was not pleasant, but there was a different kind of attraction.
Bai Yujing and Jiang Ke were standing on the street outside the coffee shop together, the cool evening breeze was blowing, Bai Yujing pulled her coat, she saw Jiang Ke's expression with that kind of parting feeling, and couldn't help but say, "Sister Jiang Ke, didn't that person say that if she went to the hub station, she would be a tour guide?" ”
Jiang Ke rubbed his hands, after the previous shower, the weather would slowly cool down, "What are I doing in other worlds when I have nothing to do, I can't pretend/force to cross, it's all weird and weird people than me, what's the point." ”
Confidently saying very spineless words, Jiang Ke paused, turned his head to look at Bai Yujing, "By the way, Yujing, you know what the hub station is, right?" ”
"Barely know." Bai Yujing nodded casually, sure enough, is this question really as simple as whether the earth is round or not.
"Oh, what's going on there?" Jiang Ke asked Bai Yujing behind him as he walked back to the warm store.
"I haven't been there either, but I've heard that it's a place that's important for life in the multiverse." Bai Yujing began to popularize science, "It's not that some planes will be open to the outside world, and some will be conservative and self-contained, but the hub station belongs to the completely open kind, transportation and commerce are very developed in it, and it has been adapting to changes in the long years, and has developed to the characteristics of multiple facets. The hub, the important part, the central link between things. ”
Jiang Ke nodded understandingly, and Yu Jing said it was simple and easy to understand, she had already seen such a similar setting in novels and anime, YY was easy, but there was really a place for trading and circulation in a distant place, or under multi-faceted conditions, it was quite incredible. And Xi, as a good member of it, made a wise decision not to be an enemy in the first place.
The coffee shop has not been taken care of for several days, but fortunately, in the usual careful and dedicated maintenance, Jiang Ke and Bai Yujing can reach the business standard after a little cleaning after they come back, and the two of them run around in the imperial capital, and they also need to rest physically and mentally when they return home all the way, and after washing, they turned off the lights and went into the bedroom.
What happened was quite a lot for the two of them, especially Jiang Ke, about the black cross mark, Bai Yujing comforted Jiang Ke clumsily, saying that Qingyun Daoyou would definitely be able to come up with a way when he came back, Jiang Ke of course should be harmonious, and would not complain too much and vent negative energy in front of the child.
The items stolen by Wu Changdao from the Holy See sneaked into Jiang Ke's body...... At the beginning, the other party was able to change from an ordinary priest to a magical power, and easily killed two quasi-bishopric figures with holy relics, which was inseparable from the Black Cross. Jiang Ke still didn't know what it was, Wu Changdao didn't mention it when he was still alive, but it was embodied in the form of a ghoul method that took away the life of the magician with a dead breath, and now it was in the form of a black cross...... There is no doubt that this thing contains great power and can bring incredible elevation to the possessed, but Jiang Ke definitely rejects this devilish thing.
She has already seen Wu Changdao's fate, even if the other party does not take the initiative to sacrifice himself in the magic array in Jiangbin District, the final result is not a good death, Jiang Ke does not want to dominate the world, and second, she does not want to save the world, she just wants to live in peace and stability, and she is quite satisfied when she occasionally looks at the scenery beyond the earth.
"I don't know what terrible things will happen after that, that mark will suddenly appear again one day......" Jiang Ke lay on the ground, looking at the ceiling and not sleepy, this time it really felt like a curse, "I'm also drunk, why would such an evil thing hide in the holy place of the Holy See." ”
Obviously, she can't figure out a way until Yu Bai comes back, as for the superpower agency on the earth, Jiang Ke is quite skeptical about the country's NNRC, not to mention the problem of trust, even in terms of ability......
Even Xi felt that it was tricky, Jiang Ke hesitated and canceled the idea of calling Xu Bin for help, at least not to the worst yet.
The National Day holiday is over, life still has to go on, Jiang Ke, who is a little depressed, gets up to brush his teeth and prepares for school as usual.
In spring, summer, autumn and winter, the city will always have a different beauty, but it will also present different scenery depending on the mood. On the bus, Jiang Ke was mostly in a daze, and she didn't pay much attention to the bad three people who came up to sit next to her and talk.
When I arrived at the school, the director of teaching said at the morning meeting that next month would be the midterm exam, Jiang Ke naturally had to show strategic and tactical contempt for these, and it was impossible to work part-time, and she was not in the mood for this at all.
The imprint thing is very uncomfortable, Jiang Ke can't sleep at work, and he always feels weird in his body when he eats in the cafeteria.
It's mostly psychological, and she knows it herself.
Daily life was once again damaged by external forces, like an alarm bell, Jiang Ke refocused his thoughts on how to strengthen himself.
The problem of solving the black cross mark is left to Qingyun Daoyou, and she thinks about it for the future.
Before leaving, Xi left a few words unwillingly.
"I really can't see the past...... It would be nice if we could see cause and effect, but wouldn't it be possible for the line of cause and effect to be controlled by life......"
The other party was a little hesitant about not being able to consult what he really wanted to know, but Jiang Ke focused on the second half of the sentence.
Cause and effect line?
Jiang Ke was a little concerned with the word and felt that it might help, because she had indeed seen a fragmented past.
When did she see the past, and why?
In math class, she stared at the functions on the blackboard and remembered, and then it occurred to her.
It's still that black cross!